“Pain is a God the body worships,” (Ajram 69). Vicken has planned his suicide; he will drown himself in the Saint Lawrence River after suffering from clinical depression for years. But when he gets off the subway he finds himself in a strange, endless labyrinthine station that he can’t escape. And he’s beginning to suspect he …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Despair was like that, eating away at you from the inside, so that you hardly recognized it when you went dark. There was no point arguing with it at times like that. It would always win,” (Fahner 176). Lizzie Donoghue wants more out of …
“All scary stories have two sides…Like the bright and dark of the moon. If you’re brave enough to listen and wise enough to stay to the end, the stories can shine a light on the good in the world. They can guide your muzzles. They can help you survive,” (Heidicker 5). On a dark autumn night, …
“The town cares for devil’s work no more than it cares for God’s or man’s. It knew darkness. And darkness was enough,” (King 327). After some time on the run a terrified man and boy resolve that they must return to the small town of ‘Salem’s Lot they escaped from and face the evil that has …
Today would have been my mom’s sixty-sixth birthday. I don’t usually make a post for her birthday, only on the anniversary of her death. I’m sure it’s to the annoyance of those who follow me online and maybe even to some of my friends. I’m sure some people see it as morbid, that others are …
“Little Natalie, never rest until you have uncovered your essential self. Remember that. Somewhere, deep inside you, hidden by all sorts of fears and worries and petty little thoughts is a clean pure being made of radiant colours,” (Jackson 42). Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite is eager to start at Bennington College. There she’ll be away from her …
“However much Connie’s absence permeated my every though, I had never once said so out loud. Never recounted to anyone the lost, dark-edged hours, knowing that the words themselves, the weight of them in my mouth, would be like drowning, and all at once her disappearance would cease to be a series of frantic flashes, …
A saint for hares and little creatures is a saint I can get behind, so let’s learn some more about Saint Melangell! Who was Saint Melangell? Melangell (pronounced Mel-an-geth in Latin Monacella which translates to “little nun”) was a seventh or eighth century Irish princess who fled Ireland after her father set up an arranged marriage for …
“I will never forgive you, unless you find the murderer before the statute of limitations is up. If you can’t do that, then atone for what you’ve done, in a way I’ll accept. If you don’t do either one, I’m telling you here and now — I will have revenge on each and every one …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “But if it was all of us on planet Earth inside this shiny, driverless car, then what would we be exiting, besides reality? What would we tumble into, if not a void?” (Kushner 25). Former FBI and now rogue secret agent Sadie Smith, …
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